War: Offensive to the Utah Community
The ABC affiliate for Salt Lake City has rejected an advertisement that features Cindy Sheehan's questions about her son's death in Iraq. You can read a brief story and find a link to the ad here.
Last night, I happened to catch the KTVX evening newscast (it comes on after Desperate Housewives) and was rather appalled by how the news readers tried to dodge the issue. Their main concern seemed to be that Sheehan was calling Bush a liar. First of all, anyone who hasn't figured out that Bush will say anything he thinks will justify his pathetic leadership and boost his daily approval rating is living in pathological denial. Secondly, has there ever been a president who hasn't been called a liar at some point during their administration? Wasn't our last president brought up on charges for doing just that? Where's the moral outrage that media outlets like KTVX expended on Bill Clinton for getting a blow job and lying about it?
The KTVX news readers (it's insulting to think of them as any kind of journalists, but in this they're not much different than any other local news personality) also noted that "other stations" in the area had "accepted cash" to run Sheehan's ad. My God! A television station accepting cash for advertisements? Does the FCC know about this?
The news readers also tried to push the blame for the decision onto the station's business consultants rather than anyone who might actually be deemed worthy to work at the station. So KTVX apparently doesn't even have the balls to defend its own practices. By comparison, Sheehan comes off looking like Abe Lincoln waiting for Jefferson Davis to turn in his badge.
There is no mention of this story anywhere on the KTVX website, although the evening's lead story--a daring bust of a teenage rave--is featured prominently.
Last night, I happened to catch the KTVX evening newscast (it comes on after Desperate Housewives) and was rather appalled by how the news readers tried to dodge the issue. Their main concern seemed to be that Sheehan was calling Bush a liar. First of all, anyone who hasn't figured out that Bush will say anything he thinks will justify his pathetic leadership and boost his daily approval rating is living in pathological denial. Secondly, has there ever been a president who hasn't been called a liar at some point during their administration? Wasn't our last president brought up on charges for doing just that? Where's the moral outrage that media outlets like KTVX expended on Bill Clinton for getting a blow job and lying about it?
The KTVX news readers (it's insulting to think of them as any kind of journalists, but in this they're not much different than any other local news personality) also noted that "other stations" in the area had "accepted cash" to run Sheehan's ad. My God! A television station accepting cash for advertisements? Does the FCC know about this?
The news readers also tried to push the blame for the decision onto the station's business consultants rather than anyone who might actually be deemed worthy to work at the station. So KTVX apparently doesn't even have the balls to defend its own practices. By comparison, Sheehan comes off looking like Abe Lincoln waiting for Jefferson Davis to turn in his badge.
There is no mention of this story anywhere on the KTVX website, although the evening's lead story--a daring bust of a teenage rave--is featured prominently.
posted by Chazzbot at 8:37 AM
2 Comments:
It never ceases to amaze me how modern human beings consider themselves so advanced, yet still revert to holy crusade tactics. But then, isn't a crusade the best way to mask an ulterior motive? I haven't trusted Mr. Bush from day one. And I'm thinking that more and more people are seeing the light, so I remain hopeful. Consider that his ratings plummetted so low that he had to resort to a PR tour in...Utah and Idaho. I don't think that even Napolean Dynamite buys into it. :-)
As for KTVX, they've always sucked. Now I have yet another reason to avoid their "news." They are, however, savvy enough to realize that the majority of Utahns are going to praise their tactic, thus, greater viewership, which, if I'm correct, they are struggling to find.
Here's another person wanting to move to SLC in order to cast one more vote for Rocky Anderson (gasp!), a leader with enough integrity to react to the Bush visit, seeing it for what it was.
Hello, I am interested in hearing from others
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